Why Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ plan doesn’t work

September 27, 2017

There is no such thing as ‘free’ and when it comes to Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan, YOU will be paying for it. Sanders has been proposing a socialized health care system for years that would create a single-payer system, essentially by expanding a government run program, like Medicare, to all Americans. That would mean a government program like Medicare would replace all private health insurance, including employer-sponsored health insurance.

Government officials cannot control the demand for medical services; they can only control the supply of medical goods and services. In practice, this means that government officials must determine what kind of care patients get, how they get it, under what circumstances they get it, and how those services will be “priced.” (They don’t negotiate prices; they fix them.)

There is nothing “simple” about any of this. The Medicare program, with its tens of thousands of pages of rules and regulations and guidelines, demonstrates that painful fact daily to any Medicare patient struggling with a Medicare claims denial, or any doctor or any other medical professional wrestling with Medicare paperwork. Meanwhile, forget personal freedom.

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There is no such thing as 'free' and when it comes to Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan, YOU will be paying for it. Sanders has been proposing a socialized health care system for years that would create a single-payer system, essentially by expanding a government run program, like Medicare, to all Americans. That would mean a government program like Medicare would replace all private health insurance, including employer-sponsored health insurance.
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